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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Handover of Critical Patients in Urgent Care and Emergency Settings: A Systematic Review of Validated Assessment Tools.

Ruth Tortosa-Alted, Estrella Martínez-Segura, Marta Berenguer-Poblet, Sílvia Reverté-Villarroya

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Ruth Tortosa-AltedHospital de Tortosa Verge de la Cinta, Catalan Institute of Health, Pere Virgili Institute, Carretera Esplanetes, 14, 43500 Tortosa, Spain.
Estrella Martínez-SeguraHospital de Tortosa Verge de la Cinta, Catalan Institute of Health, Pere Virgili Institute, Carretera Esplanetes, 14, 43500 Tortosa, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4018-8477
Marta Berenguer-PobletNursing Department, Campus Terres de l'Ebre, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avenue Remolins, 13-15, 43500 Tortosa, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6631-3777
Sílvia Reverté-VillarroyaHospital de Tortosa Verge de la Cinta, Catalan Institute of Health, Pere Virgili Institute, Carretera Esplanetes, 14, 43500 Tortosa, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2052-9978

Funding

Fundació Doctor Ferran 2020Rovira i Virgili University 2020/2021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergency handover of critical patients is used to describe the moment when responsibility for the care of a patient is transferred from one critical patient care healthcare team to another, requiring the accurate delivery of information. However, the literature provides few validated assessment tools for the transfer of critical patients in urgent care and emergency settings. To identify the available evaluation tools that assess the handover of critical patients in urgent and emergency care settings in addition to evaluations of their psychometric properties, a systematic review was carried out using PubMed, Scopus, Cinahl, Web of Science (WoS), and PsycINFO, in accordance with PRISMA guidelines. The quality of the studies was assessed using the COSMIN checklist. Finally, eight articles were identified, of which only three included validated tools for evaluating the handover of critical patients in emergency care. Content validity, construct validity, and internal consistency were the most studied psychometric properties. Three studies evaluated error and reliability, criterion validity, hypothesis testing, and sensitivity. None of them considered cross-cultural adaptation or the translation process. This systematic psychometric review shows the existing ambiguities in the handover of critically ill patients and the scarcity of validated evaluation tools. For all of these reasons, we consider it necessary to further investigate urgent care and emergency handover settings through the design and validation of an assessment tool.

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emergency medical servicespatient handoffprehospital emergency carepsychometricssurveys and questionnairesvalidity and reliability

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PMID34945032
PMCPMC8707112

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